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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently approved appropriately implemented “knowledge-based authentication” as a method for obtaining verifiable parental consent (VPC) under the Children’s Online Protection Act (COPPA). To be “appropriately implemented,” operators should assess whether any knowledge-based authentication technology:
•Generates “dynamic, multiple choice questions”;
•Asks “a reasonable number of questions with an adequate number of possible answers” to ensure that “the probability of correctly guessing the answer is low”; and
•Uses “questions of sufficient difficulty that a child age 12 or under in the parent’s household could not reasonably ascertain the answers.”

The FTC’s action provides online operators some welcome flexibility in implementing COPPA-compliant VPC strategies and demonstrates that the FTC will give serious consideration to VPC proposals.

﻿Less than two weeks after providing additional guidance on the recent changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Rule, in the form of updated Frequently Asked Questions, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted unanimously to retain the July 1, 2013 effective date for the changes to the COPPA Rule.

Yesterday saw dozens of instant summaries of the Federal Trade Commission’s long- awaited revision to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, which becomes effective on July 1, 2013. We took a night “to sleep on it,” in order provide not just a summary, but some focused comments about the impact of yesterday’s rule […]

The FTC yesterday issued a staff report calling upon members of the mobile app ecosystem to provide better privacy notices to parents about mobile apps directed to children. The report is described in this blog entry.

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